The synthesis of some novel stilbene dimers incorporating diamide tethers: studies in single electron transfer oxidation (FeCl3)

Abstract

The FeCl₃ oxidative cascade reaction of the acetamido stilbene 1 which we reported some years ago produced the first atropodiastereomeric indolostilbene hybrid 3. By contrast, recent investigation of the oxidation of the stilbene succinamide dimer 72 (FeCl₃/CH₂Cl₂) appears, on the basis of spectroscopic evidence, to have produced the bridged macrocyclic indoline 73.